The Jazz Age Began Soon After World War I and Ended with the 1929 Stock Market Crash
Prohibition fostered a large underworld industry in many big cities, including Chicago and New York. The Jazz Age began soon after World War I and ended with the 1929 stock market crash. Victorious, America experienced an economic boom For years, New York was under the control of the Irish politicians of Tammany Hall, which assured that and expansion. Politically, the country made major advances in the area of women's independence. During the war, women had enjoyed corruption persisted. Bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling thrived, while police took money from economic independence by taking over jobs for the men who fought overseas. After the war, they pursued financial independence and a freer shady operators engaged in these activities and overlooked the illegalities. A key player in the era of lifestyle. This was the time of the "flappers," young women who dressed up in jewellery and feather boas, wore bobbed hairdos, and danced Tammany Hall was Arnold Rothstein (Meyer Wolfsheim in the novel). Through his campaign the Charleston. Zelda Fitzgerald and her cronies, including Sara Murphy, exemplified the ultimate flapper look. In The Great Gatsby, Jordan contributions to the politicians, he was entitled to a monopoly of prostitution and gambling in New Baker is an athletic, independent woman, who maintains a hardened, amoral view of life. Her character represents the new breed of woman York until he was murdered in 1928. A close friend of Rothstein, Herman "Rosy" Rosenthal, is alluded to in America with a sense of power during this time. As a reaction against the fads and liberalism that emerged in the big cities after the war, in Fitzgerald's book when Gatsby and Nick meet for lunch.
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